Flying my brother Dave

Having finally finished all of my requirements, I had the privilege tonight to treat my brother and his oldest son, Jake, for a ride in N44VF. We spent most of the day at King’s Island amusement park riding the coasters and enjoy carny food, so after a quick couple of laps of Cesar’s Creek lake […]

I’m a Velocity Pilot

I’m finally there. Sure, a pilot’s license, or endorsement, is just a license to learn, and I’m sure I have many, many things to learn yet, but I can finally get in my airplane anytime I want and just fly. I spent 2 hours last night with my instructor working off the required hours to […]

Flying with Pete Sweemer

I’m now “officially” a Velocity pilot. Although I’ve been ‘signed off’ for awhile, the insurance wanted more dual time, and I finished that tonight with Pete, for a total of 15 hours dual Velocity time (5 at the factory, 5 in N44VF with John from the factory, 2 with Dave Bertram in our plane, and […]

SkyRadar Update

We have good ADS-B coverage locally these days, and I’m regularly pulling up the winds reported at my destinations via the GRT’s DETAILS page, and getting lots of traffic (part of that is because I have the GTX330ES doing the “activation” of nearby transponders), but I’m also seeing myself. Turns out I need to tell […]

VOR Tracking

Just a quick note that there is a setting in the EFIS for using the right (course) knob to set the OBS on the SL30, which I had not set, that was causing me issues. I changed it and now it works perfectly… make a note on your system (the options are “ON NAV HEAD” […]

Flying to the EAA974 BBQ

Not a big update for this weekend, I’m still fighting a cold, so I didn’t do too much, but we did have our annual cookout at the chapter hangar, and I did fly Elizabeth and I over to KHAO for it. It was the first time that Elizabeth let me fully pilot the airplane. That […]